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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-28
Christmas Dinner at the Almshouso sun
day school

This afternoon the Sunday school Of
which Mr.. p. A. Arthur is superintendent
and Rev Preston Nash assistant rector
of ST. James church, is minister in charge,
at the city Almshouse, will give the school
and inmates Christmas tree celebration.
The inmates, of whom not one will be
missed, will receive useful articles, such
as clothing, etc, and all the children Of
the vicinity, members Of the school to
the number Of about sixty, will receive
toys, cakes, candies, &c.
Rev. Mr.. Nash and superintendent Ar
thur desire thanks TO be returned to the
merchants who have so kindly contribu-
ted TO the Christmas tree.
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Hermann Schmidt.

Attention is called to the advertisement
of Mr.. Hermann Schmidt's European
store 500 and 502 Broad street,
corner Fifth. He offers everything
in his line to be conceived Of, and
all is of the very best. We can conscien-
tiously commend him to the public
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The thanks of the TIMES are due TO
Mr. James IL. Blackwell, the florist at No.
ll9 East Broad street, for the beautiful
plants which furnished the Christmas
decoration of the Office. They attracted
general attention, and were universally
admired. They came from Mr.. Black
wells gardens, corner of Lombardy street
and Park avenue.
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watches, rings, etc, sold on small weekly
payments Goods delivered when first
payment is made. Union lnstallment
Jeweler, corner Ninth and Main streets
(up stairs, over Spence's store, Room 6.
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CATHEDRAL HALL, MARSHALL
; street, between Ninth aud Tenth
streets. RSOAH, December 18th. 1857,
at 7 NJ; Under the auspices of the McGill
Catholic Uni. n, there will be- az the above
time and place PUBLIC CELEBRATION
OF the Golden Jubilee OF His Holiness. Pope
Leo XIII. The entertainment will consist Ol
music by a selected choir under the direction
OF Mr. NJ. Is Leonard, the recital OF nauric .
Egan's poem on the Jubilee. by Mr. W !.
Reddy. brief reading OF selections from the
life and writings OF Pope Leo XIII, By MI. n
G. Jenkins and an address hy ~. Rev. Bishop
Kcane. The public generally, ladies and gon
tlemen, are cordially Invited tO mako this
meetinga cr0dit 70 the community. de2, 81
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-28

The Prussian and German departments
OF justice haye commissioned Judge AS
chrotl to study and report upon the
American penal system, with view to
making it the basis of new system in
Germany.
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HEIRS TO 4 100000, 900 nsrAlE.
The Webors lay Claim 20 sixty-sn Acres
OF Land in Now York city.

The Webors lay Claim 10 sixty-SiX Acres
OF Land la New York city.
DOVER, n. H., December 2L-Dr. ".
" Weber stated this forenoon that the
claim of his father William Weber, as
one of the heirs TO plot of land sixty
six acres in extent, located in New York
city, south of Canal street, has been
proven. The said plot, which is now
studded with massive blocks of buildings,
was bought in 1896 by Wilfred Weber,
Of Holland, who settled on Manhattan
ISLAND short time previous. In 1914
Mr. Weber leased the land to a kinsman,
Wilfred Weber, Jr., for two hundred
years. Dr. Weber's father is of the sew
enth generation Of Weber, ST., who ori-
ginally owned the land. On the expira-
ton OF the lease in 1874 the land natur-
ely reverted 90 the descendants OF the
original Wilfred Weber For few
years past William Weber and other
descendants have been busily engaged
proving they were direct descendants of
the first owner. Now il is proved, there
will be a meeting Of the heirs in New
York on January 20 to complete the
arrangements for getting possession.
The property is valued at S2O,0OOOOO.
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Defaulling Cashier Hood, of the board
of water commissioners OF Norwich,
Conn, has been arrested, charged with
embezzling $4,000 OF the city funds. He
was sent 10 Jail
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-28
TO ALL WHOM ITMAY CONCERN


IAN PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS
Il for fire Back an York RIVER Oysters for
the holidays, also fruits, sc.
JOHN WESLEY.
de1s-tf No. l2l Moth Eighteenth street
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THE EX-SECRETARY.
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL SER VICES at
HIS HONE ~ ALBANY
Elaborate Tributes Of Respect to His
Memory-A Number OF Distinguished
Statesmen Present at the Obsequies-
Mr.. COrc0ran's Health summary.

Mr.. Corcoran's Health th-summary.
ALBANY. n. Y December 27.-Busi-
ness has generally been suspended o-day
as tribute to the memory Of Daniel
Manning. No citizen OF Albany has ever
been accorded such tribute as has been
paid 10 the memory Of the ex-Secretary
to .day. Emblcms OF mourning through
out the city indicate the respect in which
he was held. The President. accompani-
ed by Secretaries Bayard, Fairchild, and
Lamar, Postmaster. General Villas, At
torney-General Garland, and Private
Secretary Lamont, arrived by the West
Shore road about SO'clock this morning.
Colonel Rice, Governor Hills private
secretary; Mayor Thatcher, ex-Mayor
Banks, and Erastus Corning, met the
party at the railway station with sleighs
and conveyed them TO the Executive
Mansion. There breakfast was eaten,
the party being the guests OF the Cover
nor
VIEWING THE REMAINS.
The remains Of the dead statesman re-
posed in q black cloth covered casket in
the front parlor of his sol James resi-
dence. No / 80 Lancaster street from . to
II o'clock this morning, where hey were
viewed by numbers Of his friends. The
family felt constrained TO limit the mum
Der of those TO whom this priyi-
lcge was extended out OF Difference 10 the
oft.repealed wish Of Mr. Manning. The
house itself IL also too small to afford ac-
commodati0ns to any large number Of
mourncrs.
AT THE CHURCH.
Services were conducted for the family
at the house al / 80 this afternoon by
Rev J. l.. Reese Of ST. Pauls Episcopal
church Dpon the conclusion OF the ser
vices the remains were removed TO 81.
Paul's. where the public services were
held. Owing 20 the TACT that the seating
capacity of s.. Pauls church is but 800,
the two side doors were kept closed, and
only part Of the middle entrance
was thrown open to allow the
mOurners 10 enter The family pew
was heavily draped, but there was no
other symbols Of mourning within the
edifce. The bier upon which the casket
rested was hidden by eyergreens and
palms.
The regular services OF the Episcopal
church were read, after which the re-
mains were borne TO the Rural Cemetery,
followed by the family and mourners in
sleigbs The City Hall bell tolled every
fifteen seconds while the coriege was
passing from the church to the Rural
Cemetery. Fully 200 printers Of the
Union of which Nh Manning was always
proud 20 have been a member, many OF
them veterans. accompanied the remains.
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NOTICES


WILLIAM LALLI HAVING THIS
w day assigned all bis interest !n the Com
mercial Club Restaurant and Bar business -
Michael T.. lally, the said business will be
continued In the flrm m-name sNLLLlNOs6
LALLY al the same place, No. yl2 East Main
street, and No ell Bank street. Tho new irn
being composed Of the undersigned.
WILLIAM SNfLLING5,
3de22st MICHAEL T.. LALLY.
RIO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.
1 have this day appointed Q. +. ASDRHsOs
Jr., my Agent. o. carry on tho Drug business
at No. l22y East Broad street, and 70 buy an1
sell Tor cash only. >. 4. ANDERSON.
December eth. 1881. ide l3gw
NOTICE WILLIAM I. CRAW-
~ FORD is hereby appointed my Agent 10
carry on the ijar and Billiard Saloon hereto
fore kept By Crawford \ Lalig on Fifteenth
street IN II. Charles Hotel building 10 buy
and sell for cash. A. II. COZ hINE1.
ide D2w Trustee OF Crawford s Lally.
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A CADEMY OF MUSIC.
THE WESTON BROTHERS

supported Oy d magnificent company Of met
ropOlitan artists IN the immensely 5uccessful
Musical Comedy Drama written by Charles
Foster. Esq. entitled
THE WAY or THE WORLD.
p,,.... a. ,tat,oI a.. d. .,, g. NO,
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PRICE, TWO CENTS


SSOO TO 5000 WANTED Secured by
20 Deed Of Trust Good per cent. aud no
risk. Address " BUSINESS" care Carrier
No. II. 5ieci-tf
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New and original Songs, Dances. Banjo
Solos, etc.
Prices "a usual
Next attraction - NOVELTY COMEDY
COMPANY.
lica9 IL
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WEATHER INDICATIONS.

, WASHINGTON Deceu her q. In
dicati0ns for Virginia Warmer,
,np I fair weather followed 10y rain. winds
~" becoming irc,h 20 brisk southerly,
I followed ON Thursday by much
cod'T fair weather. tur NOrth~nd
....t Carolina Warmer weather. followed
. i.. BAT rains. light 20 fresh winds.
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New ani appropriate scenery, and startling
mechanical effects, as originally produced at
wallack's Theatre. New York
Prices as usual. 5dec2j.Su. .ThAsat
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, CADEMY OF MUSIC.
EIGHTH STREET.

Commencing Thursday, December ''th. for
three nights aud saturiay Matinee.
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supported hy a first class Dramatic Company,
In Henry Pettitt's Realistic Drama OF
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-28
ANiIsEMENrS

TO NGGnT-Patti Rosa's latest success.
LOVE AND DUTY
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special attention to Repairing.
gu su "
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

Several years ago the convicts in
large penitentiary conspired together and
made an unsuccessful attempt to escape.
In the struggle the leader of the prisoners
and one of the keepers were killed. The
men were secured, but they remained in
a gloomy and vindictive temper for
months afterward.
Stricter discipline was enforced. and
then, after some time Kindness was tried
to conciliate them. Their rations inn
proved in quality and several new privi-
leges were granted them, but it was all in
vain.
I'VE are sleeping on a Volcano" the
warden reported. "They are in a
murderous humor."
He then recommended the appointment
of certain Dan Pickerell as assistant
warden, the man who held that office be-
ing a grim, sarcastic fellow. especially
disliIed by the prisoners. Dan was in
exorably firm as an officer, but he was a
fat, Jolly embodiment of good humor
He exacted every jot and title of service
from the convicts; but, that rendered. he
took an interest in them, in their rhelima-
tism, their toothaches, their children,
their plans for life after discharge.
They were human beings to him, not
numbered beasts in cages; he was not
afraid to joke and laugh with them. In
two weeks time the men were quiet and
contented. Good humor had done its
work. The revolt was over
Good humor,' says German writer,
sis one of the rank and file of human
virtues, which we are apt to overlook
but it wins more battles in life than do a
mighty intellect or lofty imagination. y
Youth Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
An Interesting Image.

The Smithsonian institution, at Washing
ton, has just received the great stone image
secured for it last year on Easter Island.
While almost nothing is known of the past
History of this remarkable image, the dis
coveries of the future may bring to light an
interesting prehistoric chapter, The image
weighs fifteen tons, and is shaped like a
gigantic human figure from the waist up.
Easter Island is in the Pacific, and is about
$500 miles from South America 1t is about
eleven miles long and six wide, and has about
1000 inhabitants, savages of the Polynesan
race. There are several hundred immense
statues on the island one of them being forty
feet high and nine feet across the shoulders
The fact that the present inhabitants have no
knowledge of art, no tools and no means of
moving huge masses Of stone, leaves the origin
of the statues to speculation.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

Two gentlemen were dining at high priced
restaurant and each had before him a porter
house steak, a loaf of bread, potatoes galore
and a side dish of some sort. Each had or
dered the same dishes, and the bill, exclusive
of small bottle of wine, was over SO. One
of the parties is well known attorney, and
the other is well known on st Anthony Hill
Said the attorney: "There's enough food here
for half dozen persons; suppose we dine off
the same dishes and give the balance to some
poor chap who hasn't had a square meal to-
day. Though not in accordance with the
rules of the house we'll take what we cannot
eat away with US"
His companion willingly acquiesced, and
after dinner they placed the remainder of
their victuals in newspaper, and, after pay
ing their BILL walked out They met little
newsboy, who begged them to purchase an
evening paper. He had six left and was
stuck" and it was so late he couldn't sell
them. The attorneys companion purchased
all the papers, adding an extra dime, and the
astonished little chap, with dumb show Of
thanks, grabbed the package of food that was
given him and dashed up the street Eat it
yourself said one of the gentlemen, before
the lad ran away. sob, not" was the reply,
I'll take it to mother" It's dollars to pair
of old boots that the boy was honest, and that
he will be a good citizen some day-Pioneer
Press Listener"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
FAVORlTE BOOKS OF A. LIFE
TIME

About books. rs about everything else,
man i tickle and changeful The book
friends of our homage are not always
those of to-day: the 'Longfellow" we
loved at fourteen or the "Carlvle" one
>wore by at twenty is seldom opened
"once you come to forty years But
have never wavered about the works of
Scott. Thackeray. Homer. Thucvdides,
Moliere. Tennyson. Pascal. Montague
Plato. Aristotle. Marcus Aurelius and
Mr.. Matthew Arnold's poems. If any
books have helped me. they are the
books of these authors : it seems desirable
TO leave Shakespeare out. as peerless and
not counted among mortals. any more
than we commonly reckon the sun among
stars. The authors named have answer
ed to various moods of the reader, to
various ages. and yet all of them are fit
for the joy of any age after childhood. to
which only certain parts of certain of
them can be delightful. One began with
Scott, with the Lady of the Lake"
which. think. is the first poem | can
remember reading. except the "MidSum-
mer Nights Dream and "Henry w."
1t is wonderful how early Sir John ap-
peals to the child one knows and admir-
eS the young lady of eleven who. in her
enthusiastic appreciation, casts herself
for the fat knights part in the drama,
which she adapted for the nursery stage.
Almost my earliest recollection of books
is the memory of Il child reading the
"Midsummer Nights Dream" by the
fire light. in Il room where someone
touches the piano now and then. and II
young man and maid are playing
chess. 1t all melts into kind of fairy
past, and vision of perfect happiness.
The real people were not more real to me
than Ariel, Ferdinand and Miranda, in
the other fairy play Andrew Lang in
the Forum for June.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
QUESTION,

Murder in the first degree inv Olives pre-
meditation; and authentic instances ex-
st of murderers decoying their victims
into jurisdictions where the death penalty
does not prevail, so that in case they
should fail to escape after the murder
which they had planned, they would be
liable to imprisonment only. | have
seen Il man in prison for life who had
murdered his father, mother and his
wife, numbering his wife that he might
be free to marry woman of whom he
was enamored, and his parents that he
might get hold of their property There
were no evidences of insanity. and he
constantly assigned after his conviction.
as reason for killing them all, that "he
might as well be hung for sheep as
lamb, and if he killed only his wife he
would be as badly off if he was caught
as if he killed the whole of them"
TO prevent escapes is the first essential
to the execution of life sentence. and
this was originally accomplished BY sol
itary confinement. But solitary confine-
ment almost invariably produces insani-
ty in comparatively short time. | have
seen seven insane murderers in the peni-
Tertiary OF State where the death pen
atty had been abrogated. Not all of
them became insane through solitary
confinement, but some did. and the ten
dency is unquestionable. Instances i'm
former years, in England. were so com
mon among solitary life prisoners that
the number was published. and used in
every discussion of this subject. Civili-
cation cries out against solitary confine-
lnent, except "a a penalty employed for
short periods. for the purpose of keeping
order in prisons.
Cooperative work is the concomtant
of non-solitary confinement: for to al
low men to be together and to be idle
would destroy order, and afford the op-
portunity for rebellion, riot and escape.
cooperative work gives an opportunity
for escape, and for crime: and it is not
very uncommon for one prisoner to as
sault or murder another. or an officer. or
to escape. The use of tools. the change
of place and many other things combine
to inspire hope of escape in the minds of
desperate criminals.
The subject of pardon is even more i'm
portant. The manner in which pardons
are procured and granted in the United
States has attracted the attention of OBJ
servers in foreign lands, who have often
asserted in the periodicals of Europe that
nothing like it can be found elsewhere in
the civilized world. Comparatively few
who receive a life sentence remain in
prison until death. The number of those
having friends and personal or political
influence who do so is very SMALL Rev.
DIR. j, NJ. Buckley in the Forum for June.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
The Lot of "A Russian Recruit.

had occasion to pass through a suburban
park. where large number of young con-
scripts were being put through the goose step
The drill master was big man. He thought
nothing of stepping up to the end of the line
and dealing two or three resembling blows on
the face OF eight or ten of the unfortunate
squad. AT the next word of command the
result was stil unsatisfactory, and the COR
poral expressed his displeasure by attacking a
sickly, consumptive looking Jewish recruit,
striking him with clenched fist full in the
ribs. The unfortunate lad doubled up, and
was dragged to the rear little beyond, where
the corporal of another squad was slowly and
deliberately dressing the line 10y savagely
kicking the legs and stamping his iron heel on
the toes of the poor recruits. The thud of the
blows and kicks and the groans of the less
hardy of the unfortunate youths were horrible
to hear London Daily News
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
How Nye Softened Stanton.

Senator Nye went to Secretary Stanton one
day to make "A petition for some dead sol
dier's orphans. 1t was in the darkest days Of
the war Stanton said: Il have not time,
Mr.. Nye, to see what you want" suppose
you take time, Mr.. Secretary" "You are
unreasonable, Mr.. Nye, in pressing such a
thing at this time" said Stanton Permit
me to say that you are the unreasonable
man." answered Nye IF you were not a
United 5 ates senator | should say that you
were very impertinent," said Stanton haught-
lily. If you were not great secretary of
war should be tempted to say you were
making BANKED fool of yourself replied
the Old Gray Eagle, with his eyes blazing
Stanton looked at him a moment, and then
softening said: Maybe | am, Jini-who
knows-come inside and tell me all about it,"
Now, Ned, my boy, you are growing sem
sible," said Nye, and the business was quickly
arranged. BEN Perley Poore.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

Capt Lista. the latest explorer of Terra
del Feugo, has, in the interests of science,
been applying the biscuit test to some of
the natives there. 1t is known that few
savages, unless they have long been ac-
quainted with the whites, can eat the
biscuit of civilization without unpleasant
qualms. When Darwin was in Terra del
Fuego the natives he met ate his biscuits
with avidity, but white men were not
strangers to them, and three or four of
them had even been in Europe Capt.
Lista and his biscuits We're novelties
where he happened to land. The captain
was at first target for arrows, but the
natives finally voted him good fellow
and accepted his biscuits.
They could not digest them. however,
and as the considerate creatures dislked
to hurt the white mans feelings. they
threw the biscuit into the grass when
they thought he was not looking.
If DR.. Kane's Eskimos had relished
salt pork as little as they liked hard
bread, they would have let his caches
alone and established fine reputation
for honesty When DR.. Chalmers a
while ago gave some biscuits to New
Guinea natives he was informed that
they We're not good to eat, but would be
carefully treasured as keepsakes. They
could eat almost anything. but they drew
the line at biscuits. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24

The swill milk fraud is a perennial sensa-
ton in New York city. Disgusting as the
newspaper accounts of the swill stables are,
they scarcely do justice to the subject. L
once spent very risky and laborious month
among the muscular "milkmaids, who carry
a club instead of IA milking stool, and whose
muscles are more of "A fortune to them than
their faces, and / am willing to admit that
when my job was done and in print, fought
shy of the neighborhood of the stables for a
good many months. Long before my time,
Albert Berghaus had explored the same
ground, and pictured it in Frank Leslies News
paper in all its grisly horror. Since my time
other reporters have done good work at it,
but swill milk continues to be drawn and sold
in spite of the revelations the press makes. |
suppose healthy person can drink the stuff
with comparative immunity, but it must be
perilous to sickly and weak organisms, as
those of invalids and children.
l knew an Englishman, clever inventor,
some years ago who came to this country and
went to live in a big cheap boarding house
here. He had a wife and child-a lusty,
beefy, British baby, that seemed sound as
one of its fathers machines. The child was
fed on milk procured in the house. 1t be-
came unaccountaby i'll, and at the end of a
hot summer it died. The father, who was q
skllful chemist, had his suspicious directed tc
the milk. He analysed it and found it pure
poison He knew nothing of swill milk, and
believed the deleterousness of the fluid to be
caused by foreign poison But having
traced it to the dairy and witnessed the meth
cd of its production, his eyes were opened
The swil milk man came down with hand
some sum in compromise of threatened dam
7 10 4 do, ri,l
in court Alfred Tumble in New Yorl
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-24
A Manx Trial.

In lately published tale, Green Hills
by the Sea" the scene of which is laid
in the Isle of Man, a strange Manx GUS
tom is described. 1t appears that up to
1916, and perhaps still, in capital trial
the bishop and archdeacon We're required
to appear upon the bench. The question
put to the jury was, not as in England
guilty or not guilty" but may the
man of the chancel continue to sit?" The
answer was a plain Eyes" or no" In
the latter case the departure of the clergy
was followed by sentence of DEATH
Detroit Free Press.